Titles for Seminarians

[PioMagnus]

Do seminarians have titles?

I ask because Major seminarians wear clerics, but they aren’t deacons or priests, but still dress as clerics.

So, If writing a letter to a priest you would write

Rev. N

or The Very Rev. N (depending on their job)

Do you do anything like that for a seminarian?

 

[Deacon_Ed]

Seminarians are addressed as “Mister” because they are lay people.

Deacon Ed

 

[PioMagnus]

thanks

 

[Psalm45_9]

PioMagnus:

thanks

In some religious orders, like the Legionaries, they are called “brother.”

 

[Tibbar]

I was in the seminary with a man who had formerly been an evangelical Protestant minister. He was also addressed simply as Mister.

 

[amarischuk]

Many seminaries, including the SVDs use the title “Frater” for the majoy seminarians (and anyone after having completed the novitiate) in order to avoid the confusion with “brother” since non-ordained members of the order, after final vows, are usually called ‘brother’.

However, the shortened form ironically now reads “Fr” so and so…confusing the Fraters with the Fathers.

 

[mgy100]

What about the time frame of when the are ordained a deacon before being ordained a priest…hehe, guess you would call him deacon then We had a franciscan brother get ordained a deacon at our school. We still called him Brother… until he got ordained a priest shortly thereafter… then we called him Father.

 

[Chatter163]

True, and the title of the religious order deacon is “The Reverend Brother ______.”

 

[Psalm45_9]

Chatter163:

True, and the title of the religious order deacon is “The Reverend Brother ______.”

In the Eastern Rites, deacons are called, “father deacon” regardless if they are studying for the priesthood or not.